From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 02:08:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 02:08:47 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-038-075.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.38.75]:14795 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 May 2002 02:08:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Karim Yaghmour , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 08:08:02 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020524214402.B22643@work.bitmover.com> <3CEF1F1E.F7062E9D@opersys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 25 May 2002 07:20, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > It seems that the LKML prefers to ignore the issue. Fair enough. I > did my part, I conveyed the worries of the rest of real-time Linux > community. My own personnal future is certainly not at stake here, > but Linux's is. Speaking for myself, I find the issue interesting, and this interest is not idle. I would not take Larry's huffing and puffing as an indication of general sentiment. He's pretty much going to have a kneejerk reaction in favor of fencing off the commons any time the issue comes up, that should be clear enough by now. As for Larry's argumentation style, it is consists mostly of rhetoric and ad hominem attacks. Considering that, I thought that you presented your points well and did not rise to take the flamebait overly quickly. Advantage Karim. -- Daniel